published on March 29, 2016 by Neel R. Desai, MD, Director Cornea and Refractive Surgery, The Eye Institute of West Florida in Pterygium Surgery

After working my way through the painstaking troubles of some of the traditional approaches to pterygium surgery, I thought there must be a better way. Through time, I developed a new approach that I call the Tissue Tuck Technique. This technique fulfills all the criteria that, in my mind, define successful pterygium surgery. It’s efficient, reproducible, and not difficult. It has an excellent cosmetic result. And, most importantly, it has a low recurrence rate. After using this new technique in more than 700 cases, my recurrence rate is less than 1%.

published on May 14, 2015 by Neel R. Desai, MD, Director Cornea and Refractive Surgery, The Eye Institute of West Florida in Pterygium Surgery

As we all know, pterygium surgery can be challenging and is often time-consuming and painful, produces poor cosmetic results, and has high rates of re-occurrence. This can be very frustrating for us as doctors and also for our patients.